Episode #23: Growing a neighborhood: The educated user’s guide to The Arts District

Join us this week as we talk with Philip Estes, Regional Planner for the County of Los Angeles, about his work developing a new historic preservation ordinance. We’ll also sit down with community advocate and gallery director Jonathan Jerald and former CRA/LA urban planner Donald Spivack to discuss the unusual origins of downtown L.A.‘s Arts District, the challenges that come with its growing popularity, and the human threads that are keeping it all together.

Plus musings on the pending demolition of the First Street Store, the national trend of privatizing public parks comes to a head as a non-profit seeks to take control of NYC’s Washington Square Park, L.A.‘s plans for a new park at First and Spring Streets, remembering Henry Hope Reed, dogs vs. children and public humiliation at the new Spring Street Park, and a sad West Adams Bishop’s Mansion update. All this and more, as Kim & Richard usher in the week of June 24th, 2013.

You Can’t Eat The Sunshine — Esotouric’s Podcast

You Can’t Eat the Sunshine is the podcast of Esotouric, the offbeat Los Angeles company that turns the notion of guided bus tours on its ear. Each week, join Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on their Southern California adventures, as they visit with fascinating characters for wide-ranging interviews that reveal the myths, contradictions, inspirations and passions of the place. There’s never been a city quite like Los Angeles. Tune in if you’d like to find out why.